06 October 2011

this camera doesnt seem to take closeups of tiny objects like insects very well ... the likely reason for this, is cos, we cant be bothered figuring out all those settings n buttons n shit.

anyway, these snaps of a rather large walking stick we recently crossed paths with arent too bad.

awhile back, someone from central louisiana saw one too and wrote in to an entomology forum wondering if they sting -- to which the expert replied that "walking sticks are perfectly harmless vegetarians" and that the males have "wicked-looking claspers at the tip of the abdomen" used in mating.